Actor-director Badji Mortiz took to Instagram to show photos before and after he went through a successful kidney transplant. Seen above is Badji's photo (left) with his kidney donor and another photo (right) with his parents right before his operation.

Actor-director Badji Mortiz expressed his gratitude to his kidney donor after his successful operation last July 2.

In his Instagram post last Friday, July 6, Badji showed a photo of himself sitting on his hospital bed with his kidney donor standing beside him.

Badji's caption read: "Special thanks to this man..who donated his kidney for me.

Actor-director Badji Mortiz took to Instagram to show photos before and after he went through a successful kidney transplant. Seen above is Badji's photo (left) with his kidney donor and another photo (right) with his parents right before his operation.

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